Religion: Fastest-Growing Church In the Hemisphere

"We never want to go over the heads of the people," says Jesus Perez,
pastor of Puerto Rico's largest Pentecostal Church. "We want to go
directly to their hearts." Never swerving from this philosophy, the
Pentecostals have won converts almost faster than they can be totally
immersed. Booming throughout the world, the Pentecostal movement has
attracted the nominally Roman Catholic people of Latin America with a
missionary effort that makes it the fastest-growing Protestant church
in the Western Hemisphere.

Although the Pentecostals are not as adept at head counting as at soul
saving, there is little doubt that they outnumber traditional
Protestants...